· Private foundation
Southpoint Financial Credit Union Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of SOUTHPOINT FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S SLEEPY EYE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CITY OF BUFFALO | $5,000 |
| LIFE-WORK PLANNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| SLEEPY EYE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $3,600 |
| NEW ULM BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| MANKATO DISTRICT 77 ABE | $1,755 |
| BETHEL UNIVERSITY - KUEHN SCHOLARSHIP | $1,500 |
| 2025 ST MARY'S SCHOOL SLEEPY EYE - GORDON OSMONSON SCHOLARSHIP | $1,500 |
| MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO - SCHWANZ SCHOLARSHIP | $1,500 |
| CONCORDIA COLLEGE MOORHEAD - HUSELID SCHOLARSHIP | $1,500 |
| RIDGEWATER COLLEGE - MATHEWS SCHOLARSHIP | $1,500 |
| ALEXANDRIA TECH AND COMM COLLEGE - FINSTAD SCHOLARSHIP | $1,500 |
| MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO - HEIDEMANN SCHOLARSHIP | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 34% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SMST MARY'S SLEEPY EYE SCHOOL5× · 2020–2025 · $50k
- SMST MARYS SCHOOL2× · 2018–2019 · $20k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT4× · 2020–2025 · $16k
Funded once
- SMST MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $10k
- MMMLC MISSION ADVANCEMENTone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SSSTATE STREET THEATRE COgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To collect, buy, store and distribute food and other necessities to needy persons in the new ulm area
Provide nutritious food to our neighbors in a respectful manner while engaging our community in the fight against hunger.
Receive and dispense food to needy clients
End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.
Stock and staff a pantry in the little elm area that offers emergency food and household supplies to localresidents.
The Ely Area Food Shelf works to eliminate hunger for people living in Ely and its surrounding communities.
To provide and maintain an ice arena for the hockey and figure skating youth of the community and surrounding area and to provide a building for other various community events and school related activities.
The North Scott Food Pantry provides food for people in need. Clients receive enough food for about one week and are allowed to get food every 28 days. There were 721 visits to our food pantry in 2025.
Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.
Community Food Shelf offering free food to low income area residents
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Ulm Area Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sleepy Eye Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 90 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Southpoint Financial Credit Union Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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